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Accounts of a druggist, giving amounts of materia medica in the column on the right and prices on the left.

Prayer or poetry in Hebrew. Quotes Song of Songs 4:6.

Esther 2.

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very damaged.

Literary? Text in Judaeo-Arabic that lists the different stages of life ('at 20... 40... 50... 60... 70...').

Rabbinic literary work.

Deed of sale of a female slave. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Involves a woman named Sitt al-Kull and notably refers to Dār al-Dībāj (the "House of Brocade") in Cairo (cf. T-S Ar.42.174, an Arabic-script deed of sale for a female slave, also mentioning Dār al-Dībāj, but from at least 10 years earlier).

Minute fragment, probably from a Magical text. AA

Mi Kamokha for Shabbat Zakhor. Hebrew liturgical poem composed by Yehuda ha-Levi, in Judaeo-Arabic translation. Same work as Halper 282. Ownership note: Nissim רפון(?). Dated: 22 Adar I 5627 AM, which is 1867 CE.

Bible commentary. In Hebrew. Late. On 2 Samuel.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

Mysterious document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Multiple hands and distinct text blocks. On the far left of recto, there is a text block concerning tax farming in a certain district, "the property of the two dīwāns," the kharājī year 951 (=1544/45 CE plus or minus a couple years), the amir Muḥammad אלדרדכש(?), a qāḍī also named Muḥammad [...], and Isḥaq the Jew. To the right of this text block, there is a letter or draft of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination.

Letter in what Goitein identifies as the handwriting and style of well-known India trader Abu Nasr Avraham informing recipient about events, apparently taking place in the Red Sea. On the recto, the author alludes to travel to or from Dahlak, mentions an unspecified group of islands (possibly the Dahlak archipelago itself), a sojourn of 18 days in Dahlak, and the arrival of an unnamed individual from Aden, and wishes for favorable winds and safe arrivals. The verso contains greetings to a number of people (legible among them are Ibn Yaḥyā, Shaykh Yaʿqūb and Abū Naṣr al-Ḥalabi) and gives date as the 6th of month of Av. Abū Naṣr al-Ḥalabī appears as al-tājir, the merchant, in the extant document of his wife's deathbed declaration preserved and dated to 26th of Iyyar 1454/April 13 1143. (Information from R.E. Margariti and S. D. Goitein, 'India Book' VI.40/IB.94; Mediterranean Society 5:151-155)

Part of a letter. Recto mentions "the people of Aden." Verso is greetings, including to Yahya, Musallam, al-Sheikh Ya'qub, and Abu Nasr al-Halabi. See Goitein notes linked below.

Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company, in Alexandria, to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 8 Shevat 5572 AM, which is 22 January 1812 CE. Very brief: 6 lines only.

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century.

Multifragment. Sharing this shelfmark are several distinct documents, including letters and lists, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, mainly late. Needs examination

Literary, probably. Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew.

Letter drafts in Judaeo-Arabic.